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Originally Posted by timun
Honestly I wrote 'maybe' there because it's an ongoing thing that I haven't had the energy to do any of my own digging into, and the Conservative rhetoric about it is so melodramatic that I haven't been paying attention to the goings-on around it. All I know is that the AG released an investigative report that said the spending couldn't be accounted for—and yes, that's very bad—and that's been followed by an onslaught of Conservative propaganda calling it "ArriveScam", and Skippy said this is why the government shouldn't outsource work to the private sector, but he's also said that the civil service is too big and they should farm work out to the private sector because private sector businesses are more efficient than lazy government workers with fat pensions, blah blah blah blee blee blah blah.
It's so caught up in the current political spin cycle I honestly don't care about it right now, although I will eventually read up about it later and it's almost certainly going to be a good example of scope creep run amok and substantially overblown.
That said, it goes to the heart of "every god-damned penny should be accounted for". I agree that spending should be accounted for, and I agree that it's an ongoing problem with the Liberal government. However, there's a big difference between "accounted for" and "scandalized". E.g., the next-gen ePassport program as previously discussed.
Again, if everything the Liberals do the Conservatives say it's a scandal, then there are no scandals.
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The bolded won’t age well.
To be fair, everyone from all political landscapes are getting tired of the scandals. I know I am. It’s always in the news cycles because there are so many scandals.